I gave this one star only because it wasn't possible to give it zero. The storyline was all over the place, to the point that I couldn't follow the story because of all the unecessary flashbacks to something that happened two days prior. Rather than ABCDEFGHI... it was ADBCEHFGI.... Why skip ahead in time if you're just going to flash back to what you didn't cover??And the lack of creativity was appalling. This book is about people led by Suleiman who live in the Tahari Desert. Really? You couldn't at least come up with your own names??Don't even get me started on the whole lack of character development.I made it through 9 of these, but I can't go any further without gouging out my eyes. Sorry.
In which Tarl Cabot does 'Lawrence Of Arabia' (with a touch of 'Jaws' half-way in - yes, really!) and adds to his stable of slave girls who done him wrong into the bargain. The convoluted plots of Priest Kings and Kurii are advanced via a labyrinthine storyline set in the Tahari Desert. And after this book, just as the plot gets rolling, we unaccountably leave the main character to take a bit of a diversion. First another slave girl story and then - in a twist to REALLY annoy the feminists - three books following Jason, a male slave. Who doesn't, as you might guess, stay a slave long...
By the way, this new cover is considerably more racy than the old DAW books version that I have. This cover looks like the book is "porno," but in spite of its suggestive nature, it isn't explicit--implicit, but not explicit.I knew what to expect from Tribesmen of Gor by John Norman, but I read it anyway. Almost 400 pages in paperback, I’d guess that close to 50 of them are dedicated to espousing Norman’s philosophy of male superiority and how western civilization has been weakened by allowing w
—Johnny
Tarl has another new name and is now know as Hakim. In this novel he is off to the Middle East, err, I mean the Gorean desert to track down a steel tower and do some heroic work.Now I don't know if it's because I have learned to skip entire pages of Norman's waffle about slavery, or if there wasn't as much in this book, but I quite enjoyed the story and found he didn't harp on as much about all women desiring to be slaves. Well except for the final useless chapter which was all about how whipping and raping a girl will make her love you.The story is fast paced and the change of location to a desert filled with warring tribes was interesting.Tarl is still a prick.
—Christian West
